"I hate myself. I have almost always hated myself, but it's not for bad things I've done. I do not hate myself for betrayals, for going behind the back of someone who trusted me. I hate myself because I am not beautiful. I hate myself because I am fat."
"Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone."
- Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"People said that inside every fat person a thin person longed to pop out. I did not believe that. I believed that inside every fat person was a hole the size of the world; I believed that every fat person wanted to fill that hole by eating the world. It wasn't enough to eat food. You had to swallow air, you had to chew up everyone who got near you."
"I hung my head, shut my fat trap and wisely, said nothing. Nothing was your best bet with mama."
"As mean as she was, her voice was beautiful when she sang, and while she was singing I loved her."
"Grammy kept on not dying, because you could not call what she did 'living'."
"The female human being, given a certain unseemly interpretation of her childhood, specific to the absence of the male parent, will tend to fixate on unavailable males."
-Carrie Fisher, Surrender the Pink
